GUILFORD — This year's concert to benefit the Guilford Free Library will take place on Saturday, May 30, at 7:30 p.m., at the Guilford Center Meeting House. The concert, Cello Celebration, features Peter Wiley, Paul Wiancko, and Judith Serkin, who also organizes the concert.
Wiancko first performed in Guilford two years ago with Serkin at the Cello Duo Concert to benefit the Guilford Library. He is a composer and cellist.
Serkin and Wiley played one of his compositions at their first cello duet concert in 2013. Wiancko lives in Brooklyn but loves fishing in Vermont's brooks and rivers. He was a participant at the Marlboro Music Festival for three years, during which time he and Judith greatly enjoyed playing duets together.
Wiley and Serkin met as teenage cello students in David Soyer's first class at the Curtis Institute of Music. Wiley is well known in this area as a longtime participant at the Marlboro Music Festival. He performed for many years with the Beaux Arts Trio, and then, later, with the Guarneri Quartet, touring around the world. He teaches at the Curtis Institute and Bard College.
Serkin, longtime Guilford resident and library trustee, was one of the founders of the Brattleboro Music School in 1975. She teaches there, as well as at the New England Conservatory of Music's Preparatory Department. She studied at Curtis and has toured worldwide.
She has been a participant at Yellow Barn, and is also a longtime Marlboro Music Festival participant.